Biosecurity: Those practices that prevent or mitigate disease from entering, spreading within or being released from operations that may contain livestock. (source: Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

Cattlemen understand the devastating potential of the introduction, re-occurrence or spread of cattle diseases, and recognize the need to manage risks to protect the viability of their operation. While “biosecurity” is not a term that cattle producers regularly use, many common sense practices already being done on farms across Canada are in line with biosecurity as part of everyday risk management. Continue reading →